A new HD in PCMCIA of 2GB

[SpentaManyu]

I want to buy a HD of 2GB for my Ipaq, and when i were sure about the Kingston 2GB HD, the seller of the shop tells me "What about and 2gB HD cheaper than the 2GB Kingston?"<br>And now I don not know what to do!<br>Anyone knows anything about it?<br>This is the site<br>

[Diego Cueva]

dunno, but Toshiba stuff are usually good.

[SpentaManyu]

Do you think that is better than the Kingston one?<br>It is cheaper. And I dont know about anyone who have used it in a IPAQ.<br><br>Do you think that it is a good idea put a HD on a IPAQ, I carry my IPAQ, when ridding in a bike, and running in the streets.. It could broke?

[Moose or Chuck]

u run with your ipaq... o for music. Ya it should be fine, but ur battery won't last long. 3-4 hours with the hardrive listening to music.

[Moose or Chuck]

The Kingston 2GB Harddrive uses less battery power than the Toshiba Harddrive and has runs slightly faster.

[suchiaruzu]

So I would buy Toshiba

[Diego Cueva]

What I´m saying is that Toshiba stuff is very reliable. (laptops, TVs, blabalbla) But I dunno if it´s "better" than Kingston...

[SpentaManyu]

So, If the Thosibas HD works in the ipaq, Should work an PCMCIA CD-RW?<br><br>It will works for an hour with ipaq battery, din not it?<br><br>

[Diego Cueva]

uhmmm... I think you would need PPC-optimized drivers to use a CDRW drive <br>but I dont know very much about drivers so I´m not sure....<br><br>Last modification: Diego Cueva - 05/26/01 at 16:02:47

[suchiaruzu]

There is no program to burn CDROMs with a PPC, and what's the point? Interesting would be some kind of Diskman to read CDROMs - with it's own accumulator so it won't suck the PPC's one...<br>Now that's an idea I like! <br>It should be compatible with CF Type2 - I don't think it would work with Type 1. You could simply put your cable into the compact flash port and read a movie you burned on a CD @ home...!<br>Kewl...!

[Moose or Chuck]

well the differences between type 1 and 2 so i've heard, is just type 2 is a wider drive bay to accomidate more electronic crap. But thats just what i heard. And yes, that is what i want, i want a Cd-rom, u know how FECKIN COO THAT'd be, omg. Infinite space, a full cd of mp3's, 3-5 vcd movies, 1 disk full of every single ppc game ever released, and my ram would have like 28 meg free. omg i'd be in heaven.

[SpentaManyu]

YES!! THIS IS MY IDEA!! <br>Buy do you think that it could work? And If it works.. How many battery should it take? If the CDRW Driver must be connect to the 220v, it sucks, it will be not usefull for our IPAQ.

[Moose or Chuck]

That's why I like my 1GB IBM Harddrive, or even better, a 2GB Kingston/Toshiba harddrive. It's large than a CD will ever be.

[Matt Keys]

The Dreamcast used windows ce as its OS, so perhaps there are some built in cd drivers?

[Moose or Chuck]

It uses a GD-ROM, not CD-ROM and was heavily modified because of the amount of hardware used. It also has a PowerVR graphics chip in there, and a sound card (forget what kind), along with 4 USB ports and a built in modem. If you can find a Dreamcast on sale for 100$ it may be worth it to hack it up and try and build yourself a PocketPC, although you'd have to know how to reprogram the OS, as it doesn't have any functional parts anymore, expect the clock and so forth.